Both the larva and the adult are voracious predators. My dead adult diving beetle had previously been flying around (they use the moon to guide their flight, so are often drawn to bright lights ...

The sperm of the male diving beetle is seriously strange: Instead of swimming in the female reproductive tract on their own, individual sperm cells often stick together in pairs, in clusters and ...

All are voracious predators, such as the Great Diving Beetle, which is common in Europe. Both larva and adult stalk small fish or tadpoles underwater, until they pounce and subdue them with pointy ...

J. Gould et al., “Diving beetle offspring oviposited in amphibian spawn prey on the tadpoles upon hatching,” Entomol Sci, 22:393–97, 2019. While studying the conservation of endangered amphibians ...

Scientists in Taiwan have revealed how a diving beetle hangs on to its mate underwater. The micro-scale study revealed how bristles on male beetles' legs attach to females with tiny suckers or ...

“Then I saw a beetle swim past ... started to suspect that the diving beetles might be nibbling on pupfish eggs here and there. But for one to take down a larva twice its size?

When it comes to wooing a female, male diving beetles don't have it easy: A male must latch onto his mate underwater, as she wriggles about erratically like a tiny bucking bronco. During courtship ...

Imagine if your foot looked like this. Shoe shopping would be a nightmare! But this is the foot of a diving beetle, and fortunately diving beetles don’t need shoes, as their legs and feet are ...